hostile - Story 66049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the back of John's neck as he emerged from his house. The hammering had started up again. He could *feel* his temples begin to throb.

He scanned the scene. The chaos, the mess, the sheer disregard for anyone else. He had worked all week, barely able to concentrate, constantly jarred by the sounds.

He picked up his lawnmower. He started it with a roar, letting the engine run for a long time, the rhythmic noise of the blades a defiant echo.

Emotion: hostile

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.67 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.56

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hostile. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 hostile stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hostile emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hostile vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.592
`S`	0.387
`骂`	0.324
`est`	0.301
`aggravated`	0.295

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.457
`de`	-0.375
`H`	-0.289
`🤩`	-0.280
`la`	-0.273